yeah it sounds like a pretty incredible event. i was coincidentally chatting with a guy yesterday who went a couple years ago.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 April 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
It really was fun, but like I said, the event is really all about the beer and the music is kinda "tacked on", so it sort of gets the short shrift of attention. I mean, the stage was set up in the brewery's warehouse and, even for High On Fire, there was never more than a couple hundred people out of the (figure I heard) 6000 that were in watching the bands play. I could waltz right in and to pretty much the front of the stage at will. Still sorta disappointed I had to miss Eyehategod to get my Dark Lord, but #firstworldproblem and all. I still had a blast.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 30 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
naw man thats kind of a huge bummer :/
― albert rotman (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 30 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Worth a read.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/04/30/043012-arts-music-portland-metal-ham-1-4/
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 03:12 (twelve years ago) link
Here's my mostly metallic May concert list:
5/ 6 "Decibel Magazine Tour 2012" @ Trocadero5/ 8 Lacuna Coil @ TLA5/13 Esperanza Spaulding @ Electric Factory5/23 Nasum / Brutal Truth @ The Barbary5/26 Church Of Misery / Rwake / Gates Of Slumber @ North Star Bar
I was possibly going to see Santigold on the 8th and still might however the wife and I saw Santigold but she has never seen Lacuna Coil and tickets are like $20 cheaper.
If any Philly folks will be around, we should hang and drink and stuff. I cannot believe a Decibel tour date in Philly won't have some of you fuckers in attendance...
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Church of Misery is sooo good live, I couldn't believe it.
Personally, my only metal shows in May are this weekend. Mares of Thrace/Untimely Demise on Friday, Opeth/Mastodon/Ghost Saturday. Well maybe Apocalyptica too later this month, if I can get a pass.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
Re: Leatherwolf
While at an Exodus show in the late '80s at The Bayou in Washington DC, the guys from Leatherwolf were in attendance, hanging out to see the show. They were nice guys despite having to deal with idiot teenagers saying "I hate poser glam stuff... But your band seems cool... I mean, you're not that glam so you're not a poser... Um, are you a poser?" Etcetera.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
From http://www.metalinsider.net/metal-by-numbers/:
War Of Ages, Return to Life (Facedown) #130, 2,860 soldWho knows, maybe their performance at this Summer’s SoulFest will attract a new audience for them? Torche, Harmonicraft (Volcom) #141, 2,630 soldThe sludge rock group’s first album via Volcom has a strong first week, debuting in the top 200. While Torche should be pleased, guitarist Andrew Elstner is probably just happy that he doesn’t have rabies. Prong, Carved Into Stone (Long Branch) 1,650 soldA strong first week for Tommy Victor and co., who sell roughly two hundred copies more than their last album, 2007’s Power Of The Damager (which sold roughly 1,400 in its first week). Anathema, Weather Systems (The End) 1,290 soldAfter a seven year wait between 2003′s A Natural Disaster and 2010′s We’re Here Because We’re Here, it’s safe to say that fans are grateful that the English post-prog rock group didn’t make them wait as long for a new album. Paradise Lost, Tragic Idol (Century Media) 900 soldA solid first week for the British goth metal group. Looks like everyone agrees that drummer Adrian Erlandsson (ex- At the Gates/ The Haunted/ Cradle of Filth) was a great addition to the band.
Meanwhile, Jack Black's Blunderbuss sold 138,000.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
i read that as Edmondson
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I think that Church of Misery and Sleep are playing within a week of each other in SF just a few days before I'm supposed to be on a plane for Alaska. No way I'm gonna make it. If I had to pick one, it'd be Church of Misery. Just heard their stuff via last year's Hellfest set and was knocked out. Pity, since they're probably not coming back to the states anytime real soon.
― Matt M., Thursday, 3 May 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
But Oxbow and Kowloon Walled City are on that Sleep bill..
― SeanWayne, Friday, 4 May 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link
Hi all, a rare appearance from me. How much do you guys rate that Azareth album that crept into the 2011 metal countdown? I've been caning this wonderful bit of blackened death metal and I love it.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 4 May 2012 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
wish i could find a link to a youtube or something but a ladino album i'm reviewing has a track called 'la comida la manana' (it's a traditional sephardic song) that is done in gothic female vox folk metal style. it's kinda excellent.
― Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I liked that Azareth album well enough. Not a favorite, but I've pulled it out more often than I expected I would. Right now I've been spending lots of time with High Spirits (found thier demos disc at Reckless last week), Occultation, Horisont, and Woods of Ypres. Also picked up a couple Deep Purple live albums for cheap.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
That Occultation is SO GOOD.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Yes it is, fantastic.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Horisont
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
also fantastic
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Horisont?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8ovFPgGVTw
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
the summoning works!
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 4 May 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Horisont rules. You got that at Reckless?
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 4 May 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
No, FYE actually! I've walked in that place five times and walked out with something in my hand twice. Once was last week with Horisont and then again today when I just picked up four dirt cheap used BOC albums.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
which BOC albums?
― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
Agents of Fortune (remaster with bonus tracks)Spectres (the first CD issue, not the remaster, but it was $3)Some Enchanted Evening (first CD issue)Workshop of the Telescopes (a 2-disc comp from the mid 90s, i was unfamiliar with this but the tracklist was awesome)
all for $17 total!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
How much do you guys rate that Azareth album that crept into the 2011 metal countdown?
― Siegbran, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
Workshop of the Telescopes is, indeed, an awesome BOC comp. For many years it was all I owned by them.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 4 May 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I actually wore out my copy of Workshops.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
BEHEMOTH(Is what people were chanting a lot at the decibel tour)
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I wasn't sure if I needed a comp since I'm about 1/2 way through getting their albums one by one, but that tracklist was just so o_O that I couldn't pass that up.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
There's enough unreleased stuff and alternate takes and selections from albums that are really not worth getting in their entirety to make it worthwhile.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, thats kinda what I figured when I was looking at it.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 May 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
ok, i didn't know at first but now i'm 100% on board with this new black breath
i guess as long as there's one metallified hardcore album a year i'm happy.
― j., Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
LEMMINGS!!! http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/the-lazarus-pit-lemming-projects-hate-and-despise/
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, Lemming Project! Cool. Always found the lyrics to "Washed" amusing. Not a lot of metal bands attacking personal hygiene (lyrically, at least) as another kind of conformity.
― wan brujo (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
Yeesh, yet another excellent female-fronted metal band I hadn't heard of before: Shear. Finnish, fast, slightly gothic and slightly progressive. EM says Power Metal, I guess because of the shredding and sometimes florid keyboards, but I listened to Dragonforce earlier today, and by that standard of Power Metal, this is something far more traditionally heavy. They could easily share a bill with Ulnleash the Archers and Triosphere.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
I talk about them in the latest issue of Decibel. Big, big fan of the keyboard melody in "The Awaking," but the subsequent tracks don't quite live up to it.
― Hellhamster 2: Hamster Smashed Face (J3ff T.), Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
Shear reminds me of Saraya. In a mildly complimentary sort of way.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 12 May 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, duh, I should have mentioned that Jeff's thing in Decibel is where I encountered Shear. Totally disagree about the rest of the album not "living up" to the first track. "Scorched" is my favorite, but I think the whole album is really strong.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
About to announce full US Agalloch tour. This is the most extensive North American run and longest tour of their career.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
Very cool. Would love to see them again so I hope they head south.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
oh boy!!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, I don't know much about Semargl, but the combination of cover art (see below), title (Satanic Pop Metal), and the descriptions on RYM are really making me morbidly curious about their new album.
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/78b4b05ec3c99ac344ba56330d1b930d/o3741118.jpg
Some RYM user reviews:
Hilarious album. Black metal took....a different path.
Well, if a band ever wanted to piss off the purist, evil kvlt black metal kids, they're doing an amazing job, considering the hate I've seen for this, haha.
If you ever wanted to hear a Behemoth and Ke$ha collab album, this is the closest you're gonna get.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
ok, whoa, sorry about the hueg cover art!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Just a reminder that Jeff Loomis' Plains Of Oblivion is fucking amazing. The two songs with Christine Rhoades make me want them to do a whole album together. They also make me want to shred while standing powerfully upon a small meteor flying through the galaxy.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, those two songs are superb, sad she didn't sing on the entire album. But those instrumentals are mighty good, too.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
No doubt. One of the highlights of 2012, start to finish. Loomis is incredibly lyrical and melodic for a shredder of his caliber.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
I still need to track down that Loomis album.
Big year for metal dudes getting into jazz fusion, and I'm enjoying that. First was the surprisingly good TRAM album (dudes from Animals as Leaders, Suicidal Tendencies, and Mars Volta) and now we've got Trioscapes, which features Dan Briggs from Between the Buried and Me. I've only heard their Mahavishnu Orchestra cover thus far, but if the rest of the album holds up as well I think it'll be pretty fun.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus but the new Baroness has got some really bad songs on it.
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link